Careers

Mission:

A key client at Kenes congresses are our sponsors and exhibitors. The Industry Operations Representative is the person who collects, coordinates and ensures delivery of these supporter’s requirements.

The position requires excellent organization skills to collate all the supporter requirements; strong inter-personal skills to manage the relationship with the client and the internal counterparts; and an innovative spirit to be able to see the supporter’s activities at the congress and help them to design an experience for their participants too.

Responsibilities:

Operations & Production

• Coordinate Industry client operations from A – Z on time and budget
• This refers to exhibitors and sponsors who order particular services and products per congress
• Manage the communication and orders from the exhibitors and sponsors
• Responsible for the planning/managing technical /operational aspects referring to these products
• Act as professional advisor on suitability and technical requirements of exhibition and sponsor products during the planning stage
• Liaise and work closely with internal core project team – distributing product requirements and management where necessary
• Adhere to defined budget, submit purchase orders and payment approvals in ERP system
• Work closely with clients on their own logistics (i.e., clients preferred booth/congress set-up, style, design and production)
• Work with suppliers and service providers on congress production, including (but not limited to) booth builders, A/V, IT, and shipping

Service Awareness & Relationship Management

• Ensure Excellent customer service and quality delivery
• Act as Kenes Group’s representative with clients/suppliers, implementing high standards and quality
• Proactively assess, clarify, and validate customer needs on an ongoing basis
• Grow and further develop existing and new business – by offering additional products and services to sponsors and exhibitors
• Establish productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned customer accounts

Innovative Spirit

• To consider the supporter’s activities at the congress as a whole and to assist in designing additional elements to enhance their own customers experience
• Includes learning and developing proficiency with mobile applications, new IT software, event management technology

 

On-Site Production

• Supervise all Exhibitor and Sponsor needs at the congress.
• Supervise suppliers/sub-contractors work as related to technical requirements

Requirements:

• Excellent time management skills, ability to prioritize and multitask
• Highly service oriented
• High degree of accuracy
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and spoken)
• Team player
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to work overtime as required, including weekends and holidays – particularly for travel to events
• Position requires frequent travel abroad

Education and Experience:

• Academic degree – advantage
• Previous experience in exhibitions management and production – advantage
• Previous experience in client liaison or account management
• Previous work experience in an international environment with global offices/markets
• Experience in budget management – advantage
• Prior knowledge of mobile and event technology – not required, but proficiency with new technologies – advantage
• Fluent/high-level English (written and spoken)
• Computer skills – Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #07-2021

Kenes Group is looking for an hightly motivated Bookkeeper for our Bulgaria team.

Responsibilities

• Single bookkeeper in the Subsidiary, communication with service providers, bank reconciliations and posting, payroll bookkeeping entries, issuing income invoices, booking expense invoices,
• Recording daily financial transactions.
• Prepare intercompany and credit card reconciliations.
• Responsible for payments and reporting to authorities, on a monthly and yearly basis
• Responsible for preparing payment to service providers (local and international)
• Support the quarterly and annual audits and reviews.
• Ad-hoc projects as required and administrative duties.
• Reporting to the head-bookkeeper based in Israel

Requirements

• Certified bookkeeper with 3-5 years of experience in global and multi-currency companies.
• Reliable and able to carry out tasks independently as well as in collaboration with other team members.
• Well organized approach: High attention to details, independent, motivated and able to work with limited supervision. Reliable with outstanding confidentiality and ethical standards.
• Attention to details and accuracy.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Experience with a global ERP system.
• Strong verbal and written English skills – Must.
• Team player with a proactive approach.
• Highly motivated and committed.

 

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #12345

Kenes Group is looking for a technology project manager

We are looking for a technologist who lives, breathes and dreams of technology,

One who is interested and familiar with every new technology that comes to market, one who knows and lives interfaces between multiple systems.

We offer a dynamic and interesting role that includes leading a project in front of clients (especially abroad) and working with various interfaces within the organization.

Requirments:

Previous experience in project management / system analysis / second level support is required – or a similar position

Experience working with Photoshop

Experience in client side application – HTML, CSS, JS

Experience and in-depth knowledge of working with live streaming software – OBS, NDI, ZOOM webinar and other broadcast software

Experience and familiarity with working with Audience Engagement System software – an advantage

Ability to motivate employees and deal with stressful situations is required

High level English is required – speaking, reading and writing

Occasionally work is required on weekends

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #06-2021

Kenes Group, is looking for a highly motivated, experienced Social Media Specialist.
The Social Media Specialist carries the overall responsibility to manage our client’s social media channels including: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, from strategy to execution and content creation.

Responsibilities:
∙ Maintaining all aspects of day-to-day community engagement for our social media channels
∙ Collaborate with marketing teams to develop strategic social media plans for our clients
∙ Execute campaigns, maintain a content calendar, monitor and engage with audience

∙ Take initiatives to build communities for each of our clients brand.
∙ Participate in conversations and answer comments related to our content and brand.
∙ Identify and resolve problems professionally, using appropriate internal resources.
∙ Utilize strong writing skills to create social media content.
∙ Design images for posts.
∙ Manage budget for paid ad campaigns across platforms.
∙ Prepare reports – internally and externally for clients.
∙ Respond to changes in social networks and adapt accordingly.
∙ Lead workshops for clients on social media.

Requirements:
∙ Able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment

∙ Capable of communicating on status of tasks and long term projects
∙ Experience with generating ideas, self-motivated and the ability to work independently
∙ Strong collaboration skills and experience with working as a team player
∙ Excellent communication skills – oral and written
∙ Organizational and Internet research skills
∙ Understanding of social media platforms and advertising on them
∙ Ability to work on weekends when traveling

Education and Experience:
∙ Bachelor’s Degree in communications, marketing or advertising, or related field
∙ Minimum 2-3 years professional experience with social media
∙ Thorough understanding of and expert-level user of all social media technologies
∙ Experience in creating paid advertising campaigns on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
∙ Experience building online interaction among members of a large-scale community.
∙ English – native or mother tongue level – written and spoken
∙ Excellent computer skills, including all Microsoft Office programs
∙ Basic design skills

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #05-2021

Kenes Group is looking for a highly motivated Web designer

Responsibilities:

• In charge of all Kenes Virtual Meetings Exhibition Booths
• Create new congress website and maintain existing website
• Cooperate with Virtual Meeting team
• Cooperate with the design team – new congress website, mailshot etc..
• Ability to function well in a high-stress environment, with many changes

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ professional web design experience
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Graphic Design or related field, or 3+ years’ additional experience
• Knowledge of content marketing a plus
• Photoshop and Illustrator skills
• Knowledge of WordPress standards and functionality
• Professional portfolio with at least 3 designs for internal review
• Good understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (basic)
• Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
• Experience designing responsive design websites
• Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
• Ability to convert comprehensive layout and wireframes into working HTML pages

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #03-2021

Kenes Marketing is looking for a highly motivated Senior Marketing Coordinator to join its global marketing team. This is a tremendous opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the international marketing world. The senior marketing coordinator will handle several of the main marketing deliverables in Kenes’ event promotion campaigns, including email marketing, cross promotions, collateral design, social media and more.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Marketing Manager by assisting and implementing marketing activities.
• Assist with day to day marketing tasks, coordinate marketing and promotional activities within the team.
• Ensure the execution of tasks and campaign management.
• Liaise with designers for marketing collateral production, such as flyers, brochures and exhibition-related projects.
• Assist with website briefings, production and website updates.
• Produce written content for website and online newsletters.
• Write and execute promotional
• Coordinate and implement promotional activities targeting societies and events.
• Oversee and monitor online PPC campaigns.
• Oversee and maintain social media platforms
• Report on marketing activities.

Requirements:

• Strong collaboration skills and experience with working as a team player
• Great attention to details
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent communications skills
• Confident and outgoing personality.
• Strong understanding of the principles of marketing.
• Organized and accountable for efficiently handling multiple tasks
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and to meet deadlines.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in communications, marketing or advertising, or related field
• Minimum 2 years’ professional experience in marketing
• English native or mother tongue level –written and spoken.

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #31-2020

 

Kenes Group is looking for a highly motivated Grants Manager to join the Kenes Education team. This role will involve identifying educational needs among healthcare professionals and raise funds through grant applications within online systems of foundations/companies, i.e pharmaceuticals and medical devices. You are responsible for identifying new support/grant opportunities, but also to help support medical associations and medical task force groups to pitch their ideas and develop plans to help grow the business across 2021.

The Kenes Education department is located in Amsterdam and is the Independent Medical Education (IME) department of Kenes Group. IME is supported through arms-length funding in the form of a grant and the supporter has no control or involvement in the content.

For our educational materials we work closely with Experts/ SMEs/ KoLs to create independent and quality & effective education for healthcare professionals.

You will work closely with the Education and Industry Liaison and Sales Departments and other Kenes team members involved in the educational programme of medical conferences and online educational activities.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Research, identify and document available and relevant grant opportunities
• Take a lead on creating scientific needs assessments in order to develop new business in different therapy areas with support of faculty, conference committees and/or association committees
• Develop and maintain relationships with thought leaders and supporters and actively pursue new business opportunities
• Develop proposal budgets together with the responsible team members
• Build relationships with granting institutions
• Draft all correspondence, agreements and reports, including LOAs (Letters of Agreement), and delivery times, in close cooperation with the relevant Kenes departments

You will like this role if you:

• Are keen to take the lead on creating scientific needs assessments in order to develop new business in different therapy areas for live and digital medical education formats
• Are a motivated individual that can be highly collaborative and be passionate and driven to exceed client expectations
• Are passionate about life long learning
• Want to work in a diverse international culture

Job skills, experience and education:

• Ability to rapidly learn and apply knowledge in previously unfamiliar therapy areas
• Bachelor degree in bioscience – Advantage
• Exceptional attention to detail
• The ability to run multiple parallel projects
• Self-motivated, task-oriented and ability to work independently
• Excellent command of the English language
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Organizational and computer/ Internet research skills, including all Microsoft Office programs
• Experience in raising sponsorship and grant funds from pharmaceutical and medical device industry and foundations – Advantage
• Experience in professional medical writing within a medical communications agency, scientific or medical publishing company, or equivalent – Advantage

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #29-2020

Kenes Group has an exciting opportunity for a Research team leader to lead a team of research experts for Medical Congresses.
We are looking for a candidate with knowledge in healthcare, life science and pharma.

In this role, you will deliver insightful research on the healthcare sector and support the Marketing and Sales teams.

Responsibilities:

• Extensive market and industry research: collect, organize, and analyze opinions and data, explore issues, and predict trends
• Provide strategic level informational and consultative support to decision makers regarding future initiatives
• Get to know Kenes Group clients and their audiences: prepare the congress competitive analysis, as well as understand and validate the congress program in terms of its relevancy to the target audience and industry support. Suggest possible new topics
• Define the unique value of attending a congress compared to other alternatives
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge on the therapeutic field and its marketing dynamics
• Analyze industry trends, and follow pipeline developments, patents, and industry changes, such as mergers, acquisitions and the status of clinical trials
• Create reports, forecasts, and sales target analyses
• Content recommendations for marketing purposes
• Manage a team of research experts

Requirements:

• Excellent research capabilities and analytical skills
• Familiar with a diverse range of research and analysis methodologies, as well as the ability to match them to company needs
• At least 2 years managing a research team
• Creativity and problem-solving skills
• Business awareness
• Proactive approach
• Multi-tasking skills and a quick learner
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Team player
• Mother-tongue command of the English language in writing

M.Sc. in pharmacology, life science, biology, or related discipline; Ph.D. – an advantage

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #26-2020

Kenes is looking for a Scientific Programme Coordinator to join our Operations Department. The Scientific Programme Coordinator will be responsible for our events’ scientific programme planning, coordination and management.

Responsibilities:  

• Plan, coordinate and manage of all aspects of the scientific programme 
• Communicate with client, congress VIPs, committee members and invited speakers  
• Schedule and organize committee meetings and maintain programme agendas  
• Work closely with the committee on the scientific programme, including planning, inviting speakers, abstract submission, review and scheduling, and providing solutions and recommendations  
• Manage, track changes and QA the scientific programme  
• Communicate logistical arrangements to faculty and reimbursement processing  
• Draft, responding to and keep track of correspondence in English 
• Responsible for written communications, promotional, print and online materials for the congress programme – including providing texts (in English), proofreading and QA 
• Ensure implementation of work procedures, policies and practices  
• Plan, track and prioritize tasks in timelines and work schedule and adherence to deadlines 

Requirements: 

• Well organized, detail-oriented, and accuracy in processing information  
• Ability to prioritize and multitask (4-6 projects simultaneously)   
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment and under pressure 
• Pro-active approach – ability to foresee problems before they occur 
• Service oriented – ability to communicate effectively with clients  
• Strong collaboration skills and a good team player 
• Ability to work with diverse and multi-disciplinary and remotely based teams. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to draft correspondence in English 
• Position will require travel abroad from time to time 

Education & Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree – advantage  
• Proven experience as a program coordinator or relevant experience 
• English – fluent – native speaker/mother tongue level, verbal and written  
• Tech savvy – excellent computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office, (Excel, PowerPoint), Outlook, and Internet research skills.  Familiarity with CMS, website back office editing experience – advantage 

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #21-2020